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MONDAY, MARCH 18TH
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Cross Building, Room 202, 9:00 am
Public Hearing
LD 425, HP 334 An Act To Strengthen Small Businesses in Rural Maine by Changing the Minimum Wage – White
LD 612, HP 44 An Act To Promote Youth Employment – Bradstreet
SUPPORT
LD 670, HP 491 An Act To Increase the Minimum Wage for Large Employers – Collings
LD 739, HP 544 An Act To Help Small Businesses by Establishing an Alternate Minimum Wage – Rudnicki
LD 808, SP 244 An Act To Create a Youth Wage – Timberlake
SUPPORT
LD 830, HP 604 An Act To Balance Maine’s Minimum Wage for Small and Large Employers -Stetkis
LD 1098, SP 330 An Act To Help Small Employers by Making the Minimum Wage Increase More Gradual in Nonurban Areas – Keim
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Cross Building, Room 206, 10:00 am
Work Session
LD 275, SP 87 An Act To Change the Bag Limits on Wild Turkey – Miramant
SUPPORT
LD 713, HP 518 An Act To Strengthen Maine’s Endangered Species Laws – NadeauOPPOSE
LD 996, SP 286 An Act To Establish a Special Handgun Hunting Season That Coincides with the Muzzle-loading Open Season on Deer – Guerin
OPPOSE
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TUESDAY, MARCH 19TH
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House and Senate in Session, 10:00 am
State House, Room 127, 1:00 pm
Public Hearing
LD 119, HP 101 An Act To Base the Motor Vehicle Excise Tax on the Sale Price – Cebra
SUPPORT
LD 1031, HP 761 An Act To Base the Vehicle and Mobile Home Excise Tax on Actual Value -Ordway
SUPPORT
LD 1074, HP 797 An Act To Establish a Tax on Water Extracted for Bottling in Order To Secure the Economic Future of Rural Maine – Gramlich
OPPOSE
Farmers in Maine use millions of gallons of water for crop irrigation, sanitation and other on farm uses every year. We will oppose any threat to the unrestricted access to groundwater.
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State House, Room 126, 1:00 pm
Work Session
LD 526, HP 383 An Act To Require Horse-drawn Carriages and Wagons To Be Equipped with Reflectors – Stanley
MONITOR
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Budget Work Session
Cross Building, Room 214, 2:00 pm
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20TH
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Cross Building, Room 216, 10:00 am
Legislative Meeting
Briefing: chemicals in packaging
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Cross Building, Room 214, 10:30 am
Work Session
LD 144, HP 126 An Act To Opt Out of Federal Daylight Saving Time and To Ask the United States Secretary of Transportation To Place the State in the Atlantic Time Zone – Kessler
OPPOSE
LD 885, HP 659 An Act Regarding Daylight Saving Time in Maine – Bailey
MONITOR
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Public Hearing
Cross Building, Room 216, 1:00 pm
LD 1080, HP 803 Resolve, Regarding Biofuel in Number 2 Heating Oil – Riley
MONITOR
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THURSDAY, MARCH 21ST
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Department of Agriculture – Ag Day
Hall of Flags, 8:00 am – 1:00 pm
Come to the State House and visit Maine Farm Bureau’s table! We will spend the morning with legislators discussing the issues and bills impacting agriculture.
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House and Senate in Session, 10:00 am
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Sierra Club
Lobby Day Lunch for Legislators
State House, Room 334, 11:30 am
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Cross Building, Room 216, 1:00 pm
Legislative Meeting
Briefing: Office of Policy and Management on Governor’s proposed Maine Climate Council
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Cross Building, Room 214, 1:00 pm
Budget Work Session
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State House, Room 126, 1:00 pm
Public Hearing
LD 478, SP 142 An Act To Allow All-terrain Vehicles To Be Used on a Public Way – Jackson
SUPPORT
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State House, Room 127, 1:00 pm
Work Session
LD 725, HP 530 An Act To Provide an Income Tax Credit To Encourage Small Business Hiring – Fay
SUPPORT
LD 903, HP 667 An Act To Improve Corporate Tax Fairness by Amending the Rates Imposed on Corporate Income – Cuddy
OPPOSE
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Cross Building, Room 211, 1:00 pm
Work Session
LD 754, HP 559 An Act To Ensure the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative Trust Fund Continues To Promote Energy Efficiency and Benefit Maine Ratepayers – Wadsworth
MONITOR